$110 hamburger lands on Jakarta hotel menu

JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) — A hotel in Indonesia is dishing out a hamburger that costs more than twice the monthly minimum wage in some parts of the country.

I’m not certain why I’m supposed to be interested in a hamburger that costs 6 dollars and 42 cents.

The $110 hamburger offered by the Four Seasons is made of Kobe beef with foie gras, Portobello mushrooms and Korean pears — served with french fries, of course.

Well, I can understand why a hamburger made from the meat of Kobe Bryant would be so expensive. He’s a celebrity. I hope they come up with a Rosie O’Donnell Triple Bacon CheddarBurger. That would rock. If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times, “Celebrities taste like angels dipped in chocolate”. I wonder how much it would cost to eat Paris Hilton. Probably a little less than Kobe as it’s free to watch her being eaten.

They’re not exactly selling like hot cakes yet, but the hotel says it has sold 20 of the 1 million rupiah ($110.10) hamburgers since they were launched this month.

That’s probably because not many people in Indonesia know who Kobe Bryant is and hot cakes are made out of celebrities that are more well-known over there, such as Oprah, and Simon Cowell. As a side note, I must say that Oprah hotcakes are sweeter and have less of an aftertaste than Kobe Bryant Burgers, although neither holds a candle to the new and limited edition holiday Twinkies filled with imitation Sally Struthers flavored Creme Filling. Mmmm…Mmmmm…..Just like angels.

“One burger has 225 grams of Kobe beef. It is so expensive because the flavor is really different,” said Erwan Ruswandi, the chief of the restaurant offering the gourmet burger.

Anytime you’re spending that kind of money on something that’s sold by the gram, it better be either really flavorful or really illegal.

“The calves in Kobe get special treatment … they drink beer mixed with milk, vitamins and eat pesticide-free grass. We add foie gras and also some Korean pears. We import all the materials, and they are high quality, so it is so expensive.”

Kobe Bryant’s calves drink beer? I wonder if that helps him jump so high. Does he inject them or do they have tiny little mouths on them, like Roseanne has on her ankles. Although Roseanne’s ankle mouths don’t drink beer, as they only like to eat live guppies.

The minimum wage in most parts the country of 220 million is as low as around $40 a month.

See, my guess earlier was actually pretty close. Shame on those of you who laughed.

A tiny number of Indonesians are among the richest people in Asia, while millions live in dire poverty in urban slums or shanty towns in the countryside.

Yeah, that’s way different than everywhere else in the world, where most of the people are really rich and there are just a few select poor people who live under the bridge.